When an office worker so broke that even ghosts scorn him accidentally breaks open the coffin of a thousand-year-old fox spirit, he discovers that he is the most "valuable" burial offering in the tomb.
Chen Sanxiao's life has been rockier than a grave-robbing tunnel. His relatives call him "a jinx reborn," his landlord throws his belongings into a foul ditch, and even the hospital payment machine waits until he has just 3.7 yuan left on his card to spit out his cash. Then his mother's critical-condition notice shatters the last of his dignity. Clutching a counterfeit tomb-raiding talisman bought at a street stall, the penniless man in a faded Ultraman T-shirt stumbles into a tomb that will change his family's fate.
The moment fluorescent moss illuminates the golden mask on the fox-faced female corpse, two million yuan suddenly appears in his account. Meanwhile, surveillance footage shows his unconscious mother smiling at thin air, and the markings on the black-clad figure's mask beside her bed are exactly the same as the curse on the corpse in the coffin. In the ashes of the burning family genealogy at the ancestral shrine, Chen Sanxiao finally understands the truth behind the gravekeeper's blood pact: the Ultraman his father left him when he disappeared twenty years ago has a bronze talisman hidden in its eyes, one capable of suppressing the nine-tailed fox demon...
Now he has to protect his bottle of erguotou liquor while corpse beetles swarm him, decipher oracle bone script while the bank calls to collect its debts, and watch out for the "Fox Immortal Great-Grandma" by his mother's hospital bed, who keeps trying to feed him snacks. When the compass needle starts turning backward, Chen Sanxiao realizes that the most dangerous tomb has never been underground. It's the world of the living, packed with people.
